Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation Department of Rural Development Operation Manual for the construction of Farm roads 2020 JANUARY CONTENT Chapter 1. Introduction 5 Chapter 2. Selection of Project Area Priotization of Projects 7 Criteria for prioritization of project 7 Processes for making prioritized plans 8 Approval of Project Area 9 Chapter 3. Implementaion of Project Forming of Supporting Committee 11 Implementing of the project 12 Field Visit 12 Monitoring and Evaluation 13 Reporting 13 Transparency and Accountabiliy 14 Communication 14 Grievance Handling Mechanism 15 Chapter 4. Quality Specifications Road Specifications 17 Quality Control 19 Chapter 5. Operation and Maintainance Completion and Handover of completed project 21 Operation and Maintainance 22 Chapter 6. Conclusion 23 Chapter 7. Annexes 25 Chapter (1) Introduction 1. With the aim of enhancing sustainable socio-economic development of rural populace, sustainable rural development activities are being implemented by Department of Rural Development under the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation. In addition to the projects such as Rural Water Supply Project, Rural Electrification, Community Driven Development Project, Evergreen Village Development Project, Village Development Planning Project and Vocational Trainings, DRD is undertaking the construction of farm roads by spending (6) months mini budget in 2018 as the first approach in carrying out these such ac- tivities for the linkage between Farmers and Markets in line with the pillar (3) of the Agriculture Development Strategy (ADS) and the additional result (3.5) of rural infrastructure process. 2. Farm roads are the construction of the rural roads which do not include in the list of Road (A) and Road (B) implemented by the Ministry of Construction such as jetty, modern industrialized (mechanization) farm roads, box culvet and bridges so that the agricultural products of the farmers and the local products of other business enterprenurship in rural areas could be effectively and fastly transported. 5 Chapter (2) Selection of Project Area Prioritization of Project 3. Township DRD will collect the data of the potential roads and bridges with the cooperation of line departments’ personnel in Township Level and Village Tract Administrators. And then, the prioritized list has to be summitted to State/ Region DRD after making negociation with the parliament members, depart- ments and other local organizations in township level. Depending on the avail- able budget from State/ Region Government Office, the project area will be ap- proved after summiting these prioritized lists to State/Region Government Office from State/ Region DRD. Criteria for prioritization of project 4. The feasibility survey report will be proposed and carried out with each and every road and bridge after collecting the data on the potential roads and bridges by township DRD with the cooperation of township level line departments and village tract administrators and after the following key figures have been collected- (a) to make sure that the list does not include in the other department’s plan but it is required to get recommendation letters without including these projects in 5 year plan of other line departments even if it is necessary to carry out this list 7 (b) Beneficiary Quantity (Areas concerned with Agriculture, Livestock, Farms, Fishing) (c) Beneficiary Population (people who pass the roads and bridges, mechanisms and agricultural and livestock acres) (d) Cost-effective economy (Trasnsaction cost, production cost and indi- rect benefit) (e) Geographical Condition (whether it is available to spend more fund or not because it is difficult to implement) (f) Availability of Land (to implement only if it is available) (g) Evironmental Impacts (h) Social Impacts (i) Being able to contribute for operation and maintainance cost Processes for making prioritized plans 5. When the prioritized plans are made after holding a township level meet- ing to discuss about the collected data in paragraph (4) with township level rele- vant personnel, township DRD will summit these prioritized plans to State/Re- gion DRD. Depending on the available budget, State/ Region DRD will continue to present these plans to State/Region Government Office for the approval of the project area. In doing so, the following plans will be carried out so as to be in line with the access to budget and the ground situation- (a) Prioritized plan will be made on the basis of the data from the line departments’ committees and representatives from Amyothar Hlut- taw, Pyithuhluttaw, State / Region parliament. (b) This priotized plan will be summitted to State/Region DRD. 8 (c) State/Region DRD will continue to present it State/Region Govern- ment office. Approval of Project Area 6. Depending on the available budget, the project area approved by State/ Region Government Office (according to the prioritized plans which are summit- ted by State/Region DRD) will be informed to Township DRD so that the project can be initiated. Township DRD will undertake the project with the cooperation of other line departments (such as cooperation with Agricultural Mechanization De- partment if this project is farm road, also with Livestock Breeding and Vetenary Department if it is for the livestock project, Department of Fisheries if it is for the fishig project and other line departments etc.) 9 10 Chapter (3) Implementation of the project 7. Implementation of the project will consist of formation of Supporting Com- mittee, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, reporting, transparency and accountability, communication and grievance handling mechanism. Formation of Supporting Committee 8. Starting at the moment when getting the approval of budget and allowing the project initiate, township DRD will hold a meeting in the project village. DRD will explain the information about farm roads and will form the supporting commit- tee in this meeting. 9. The following township level line departments, village administrator and the beneficiaries should be considered to form supporting committee- (a) Township General Administration Department (b) Department of Rural Road Development (c) Department of Agriculture Land Management and Statistics (d) Department of Agriculture and Department of Livestock Breeding and Vetenary (e) Department of Irrigation/Department of Irrigation and Water Utiliza- tion Management (f) Department of Agricultural Mechanization 11 (g) Village Tract Administrators/ 100 households Administrators and Di- rect Beneficiaries (To form this committee with engineers and personnel from other line departments if it is necessary) Implementation of the project 10. Instructions of Union Level and Regional Level including Instruction No (1/2017) of Prisident Office might be followed when carrying out procurement process performed with the supervision of State/ Regional Government Offices. It should be considered that it would be more effective if the department will un- dertake because of more negociation processes although it is small project. The implementation of project might be in line with the rules and regulations of State’s procurement when performing tender processes. The procurement process might be carried out for the construction of big Farm road project under the deci- sion and supervision of State/Region Government Offices. There would be no difficulties for technical know-how if DRD will cooperate with other departments and then sustainable effectiviness will be achived through this cooperation be- cause agriculture and livestock areas are the marketplaces. Field Visit 11. (a) Technical know-how- the field visist will be conducted nearby with the technical assistance of the engineers, land management, irri- gation/ drainage and utilization of machines. 12 (b) Management - Related to hiring the local labour in order to raise in- come of local people, the successful contractor / the department should perform signing the contract and getting the agreement during the field visit to the project village. Monitoring and Evaluation 12. For the monitoring and evaluation, the following figures will be carried out- (a) Township DRD will monitor the arrival of construction materials (will conduct materials management) and how many labours in project site. (b) The village committee will also record the arrival date of the con- struction materials/ machines and which types of materials/machines will be utilized. (c) Site engineers will supervise the utilized duration of the materials and machines the arrival of the construction materials and the labour force. Reporting 13. The supporting committee might report implementation progress to town- ship DRD once a week. Township DRD will continue to report this progress to State/ Region Level DRD. The implementation progress will be collected for the management information system of Union Level DRD. 14. When the project completes, township DRD will keep a file for the record documentation consisting of UTM/ Topographic map, X section, Profile, Drain- 13 age, Box culvert, Jetty Location, detailed picture of jetty and Left and right pic- ture, estimated cost, material/e quipments/ labour list, land donation records, contract copy and insurance duration, meetig minutes, photo records, handover record to committee. Transparency and Accountability 15. During the whole project implementation, the committee will disclose the project documents in the notice board with